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Transplanting & Direct Seeding

Unit 1.4 | Part 1 – 193

Appendix 2 (cont’d): Common Transplant

Spacings: Common Seeding Rates & Thinning

Distances

Peppers, Sweet

Peppers, Hot

Potatoes

Radishes

Salad Mix

Spinach

Squash, Summer

Squash, Winter & Pumpkins

Strawberries

Tomatoes, Dry Farm

Tomatoes, Heirlooms

Turnips, Tokyo type

Transplant (TP) or

CROP Direct Sow (DS) Spacing / Thin to Notes for Central Coast CA

TP

TP

DS

DS

DS or TP

DS

DS

DS

buy plants

TP

TP

DS

12-18”

12”

10-12”

2 ”

TP: 4-6”, DS:

swath

Thin to 24”

Thin to 24”

12”

24-36”

24”

Thin to 3”

4 peppers = about 1.15#

Sow 1/ft and thin. Leave empty bed next to planted bed for

ease of harvest/cultivation.

30–40” between row spacings for bush type squash,

6”–80” for vining types

Plant into plastic

Skip a row for less water competition

Appendix 2: Common Transplant Spacings